Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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It feels like not long ago that everyone was talking about Tears of the Kingdom.
As an extension of Breath of the Wild's open-world Zelda model, TotK had a lot of interesting ideas, a fascinating physics system, and generally struck a chord with a wide audience. But the more I played it, the more disillusioned I became at its narrative, especially in its use - and attempted subversion - of tropes.
So here's an unlisted thread on careful application of harmful tropes in videogame narratives:
#AskFedi: does anyone know of a trustworthy Firefox extension for one-click-zapping various dialog walls (paywalls, registration walls, etc.) where the content is still visible below, but the view is obscured and the scroll is blocked?
(Element zapper in uBlock is not sufficient; it requires too many clicks and does not deal with scroll blocking)
a general piece of advice, for fedi and elsewhere
Even if you're marginalized, you are probably privileged among *some* axis. And sometimes, or even often, the right decision is to just step back and *absorb* things. You don't need to have an opinion about everything. It's fine to excuse yourself from a discussion.
Follow some people who are marginalized or living a different kind of life in a way you are not familiar with. Quietly. Not commenting on their experiences or giving advice, just *absorbing* them. For months, if needed.
I promise that you'll learn things you'd never considered before, and the only thing you have to do is listen quietly, and stop yourself from responding to them. Nobody will expect you to opine on them just because you've read them.
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Add this one to your deck immediately (https://nashhigh.itch.io/fedi-cardmaker) #fedicard
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Yeah, getting screen readers to work on Wayland is really important.
Distros shouldn't default to a display manager that breaks accessibility features for the visually impaired.
Distros (at least the large ones) should give the user the choice between X11 and Wayland at install until this is fixed.
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AI and tech rant
@researchfairy Also a helpful qualifier: "Better at what exactly?" and "Better at fulfilling *whose* needs and requirements?"
And the answers to those may not be the ones they are hoping for / assuming.
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AI and tech rant
"Tech always gets better" has very "evolution means life is moving toward perfection" energy
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AI and tech rant
I just heard someone on the radio say of AI that it will only get better and
Do they know anything about tech at all?
Have they used Google search in the last year?
Tech gets worse all the time
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It's hard to explain to people that AI is extremely dangerous, but not in the way they think it's dangerous.
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my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.
what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes
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honestly we didn’t need an app for everything in 2010 and we don’t need AI for everything now. all we have ever needed was to tax the rich and take care of people
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(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)
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Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?
"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"
Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?
I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration
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I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea
(I am seriously considering just closing PR functionality on all my repos, telling people to file an issue instead, and working to find a better model of collaboration)
Like, it seems to be a widespread problem that the review and processing of PRs ends up taking up more time than it would have taken to implement the feature by oneself, which seems to defeat the point of collaboration?
"But drive-by PRs are a really important way to get new contributors involved!"
Okay, but if we're relying on an unscalable, net-labour-cost model of interaction for attracting contributors, then what does that say about the health of our communities...?
I have trouble believing there are no better and more sustainable ways to achieve collaboration
I'm becoming more and more convinced that pull requests, at least in the "from random people passing by" sense, are just overall a terrible idea
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I'm collating #evidence, studies, and journal articles refuting the bogus claim that porn causes harm to women and encourages violence towards women and girls, so we can cite evidence to Baroness Bertin in the #porn enquiry tomorrow. Please spam me with anything you've got. We need everything we can get our hands on, especially recent references.
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Nederlandse trans mensen, weten jullie hoe je hormonen in Nederland zonder een genderteam kan krijgen voorgeschreven? Er is een jonge trans man (bijna 18 jaren oud) die sinds 3 jaren geleden heeft gewachtet voor een afspraak met Radboud UMC, en nu zou hij willen proberen een dokter direct te emailen om zijne transitie te kunnen beginnen.
Dus, hier zijn de vragen:
Moet je in Nederland een gender dysforie diagnose krijgen om HRT te krijgen voorgeschreven?
Welke dokters zouden jullie aanraden te emailen?
Kunnen huisartsen gewoon hormonen voorschrijven, zonder een endocrinoloog te moeten zien?
Allemaal bedankt!
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
